It's been literally like an hour since you left but I figured I might as well get started with the letter thing early.
First off, I miss you. That's the first and most important thing that's going on with me. B made me a cake and also chicken and every unitmate has asked me if I'm okay at least once.
B also let me use this ridiculously cute stationery, so if it causes you to go doki doki I can't take credit for it.
I have to reiterate that I really do miss you though! It's kind of funny, it's a cycle where I think, oh, I miss Azul, I'm sad, oh you know what would make me feel better, hugging Azul, oh right, I'm pining, oh no...
But I'll be okay! I always am!
Anyway please find enclosed a picture of my abs to tide you over.
Love, [this space left blank for idol name to be inserted]
[ yes there is a really well-lit well-taken ab pic. why wouldn't there be. ]
The plan was to send you a letter every day, so they're going to mostly be boring.
Not today though! Well partially today. You know the lobby the firebug blew up? Normally these things are fixed, but this time it seems like it might have released some sort of ravenous hell hound that we're going to have to fight? I don't know, it seems weird.
Oh, also there was a game where we played like, art telephone? It was pretty cute. Someone nearly got stabbed because of course they did but other than that it was good.
I still miss you. I miss touching you a lot! Like, obviously in a sexy way but also I just like how soft your skin is and how nice your hair is and how it feels to cuddle you. You're just really nice to hold.
I'm working on friends - like, I think I might probably be friends with Tsukasa from Avante? I should probably ask to confirm that - but my standards are so high now, it's rough!
[ this time the paper has little dried spots where salt water has dripped onto it. it's clearly like, ocean water, though. this isn't a TEARS DOTTING THE PAPER SITUATION. ]
My beloved~
Honestly I probably shouldn't have been writing right away. I might actually scrap this letter and start over with a new better one that I didn't get wet.
Anyway, I love all my unitmates equally but I'm not sure I care much for one of them at the moment, and that's all I'll say about THAT, because I shouldn't vent frustrations with a teenager who I live with in a letter that I'm pretty sure the production is going to read when it goes out.
That said, I took some memories. Nothing is really new, except that the reason the HPSC wanted me is because I rescued a bunch of civilians from a high-speed vehicle collision when I was, I dunno, 4? 5? I was a baby is what I'm saying.
Oh, also, at some point the public turns on the idea of heroes altogether I guess. So that sucks. I can tell you more about it when I remember more.
I'm keeping up with swimming practice! Maybe I'll be good at it by the time I see you again next!
[ alarmingly the writing this time is really slanted like he's doing it with his non-dominant hand. there's no like blood smudges or anything but it does appear that it was written one-handed, so uh
also it looks like it got stuck in with the other day 377 letter by accident. the plot THICKENS ]
Azul,
first off i love and miss you. this is another letter i should probably scrap and send one that i write later after i've slept on it or something so i don't know maybe i will just sort of use it as a diary type thing and decide later.
i know this is not normally how one writes a letter and sends it so if this IS the one you see uh
sorry, and i will write a second less alarming one after.
also sorry about the handwriting.
anyway and i mean this in the best of all possible ways, like this is absolutely a compliment, it's probably objectively a good thing, but i think i have really internalized why the wording they use for being spoiled is being spoiled. like, i don't think it's by accident that it has an implication like being wrecked or whatever.
okay that sounded really bad
what i meant was, i think now that i've had time with you it makes me really aware of when you're not here, in the way that listening to other people being normal makes me really aware of how i'm kind of not normal and
actually you know what this is a bummer i don't want to make you feel bad ill try again later
[ this one is written NORMALLY, not shaky (except sometimes the handwriting jumps like maybe his arm was jostled mid-word) ]
Sweetheart,
I love you and miss you and kind of desperately want to like, wrap every limb I have (which is not as many as you have, but six isn't BAD) (I know most bugs also have six limbs don't bully me) around you and just like, stay that way for at least an hour. Maybe eight hours. A whole night.
That is to say, I miss you a lot, but I'm also really glad you're not still part of this.
AlcheME is a good unit, though. I know I say it a lot but it's true. In games there's a lot that can get tense really quickly but that never happens with AlcheME, not really. That's maybe the one thing you can say is good.
It's funny, because I watch them go from 'I never want to talk to anyone again' to 'I only want to talk to people I like', but then they remember they like everyone and before you know it we have at least four other people in our dorm. It's cute. Even when we're all mad we're still social people.
Did you ever talk to Tea? She's a sweetheart. I think you'd like her. I think I'd say she counts as a friend, but does it count if she's on the unit? I'm going to count it.
We're going to work out together. Maybe AlcheME can buy a pool.
When I see you I'm going to cling to you like a clam(???? are clams the ones who cling to things? It's something in a shell, right???)
Nothing happened today, so I'm just sharing some of my DM notes here. They're kind of haphazard and out of order, but let me know what you think.
I was thinking I should probably also get into some kind of hobby, now that I'm probably going to quit my job? Should I start painting or something? Would I be good at that?
Anyway, I should have mentioned this a few days ago, but it turns out we had an escape room the whole time you were here and we never went on a date there. It seems like the sort of thing you would totally be into. If you don't have them in your world we'll have to hit one up when you visit mine.
Love, W!
[ What follows is a BUNCH of notebook pages with notes like:
- a loose outline for a campaign idea where the characters are hired by two different, opposing but equally shitty factions factions and have to navigate loyalties in such a way as to cash out from both while helping neither
- a bunch of really specific monster stats and math regarding how fighting them in d&d would work, including charming but really very bad drawings of those monsters
- several charming d&d battlemaps
- also several drawings of cute round birds which do not appear to have anything to do with the rest of the notes. ]
Don't think you're boring me! I'm really relieved to know that you all made it home okay. I'm especially glad you took Noah! Spoil that kid, because he really seems like he needs it.
And you don't have to avoid things you like just because I'm not there, you know? You should keep sharp so that you can destroy my life, end my legacy, and exorcise my ghost with, I don't know, Scrabble or whatever when I get there. If I'm anything less than vaporized ash on the ground when you're done with me I'll be disappointed.
That said, if you remember my collection of roleplaying-games-for-two from the sleepover, the one we didn't play because I thought it would be me imposing on your personal space? (hee hee) There's one of those we can play at a distance. In fact, literally the only way it can be played is at a distance.
Art games, right?
I'll copy those pages and include them in this.
I'm glad you're keeping busy, but keeping busy in the way where you rest a lot. You really earned it. I saw your new building and it looks really nice, but... well, I'm not the business guy so you'd know better. (Are you earning revenue from it? Doesn't Hell have weird Hell currency? Are you being paid in exposure? More alarmingly, are you NOT being paid in exposure?)
Anyway I hope it's not too tough trying to manage it from where you are (which is I guess what you'd have to be doing? Unless it's a licensed location and you're basically renting out the brand name or whatever?). If I see anyone trying to blow it up for a Live or whatever I'll shrink them down and keep them in a terrarium for a while.
Tell everyone I said hi! I'm really happy to hear you're having fun. That's basically the best ending and the one I wanted for you ever since our first conversation on the beach.
I now have three stuffed octopi and am seriously considering B's joking suggestion to buy a room upgrade specifically for putting stuffed octopi in. But I like this little guy! He's cute.
Missing a game is the weirdest feeling. You're not paying attention for a second and the next thing you know someone's coming home all angry...
Anyway.
I arranged a new way of taking memories! Basically, I'm going to go off and take them with Tea. It came about from how both of us were a little annoyed about other people's reactions to our memories. There's only so much well-meaning concern a person can take at a time, and both of us were kind of sick of soothing other people over the contents of our own lives. So we're going to head out to one of the malls or something and take them there.
Tea is pretty great.
Also, there were a bunch of fireworks tonight for some reason or other (I don't trust any of the holidays in this place; they've happened like four or five times each apparently, even given that it's just been a year). It made me think of you. Next time we'll definitely get a fireworks date!
Also also, I'm thinking I should get into a hobby? Do you think I'd be any good at art? These are the things one contemplates while awaiting release from literal Hell Prison.
Today actually feels like it barely happened. One of the Live themes this """"month"""" is 'heat' so people keep starting fires for it. Which is great and I love it.
Also, people here get drunk a lot. I feel like maybe I never ran into 'just absolutely blasted' as much before? I'm not sure entirely what changed. (Maybe they just started throwing Lives about it).
In lieu of going too deeply into either of those, I drew a lizard. I'm not sure if art is going to be a good hobby after all, so I'm just including it so that you can have a laugh at the attempt.
Seriously though, there's a tiny version of Noah on sensitIV. He's completely adorable, but extremely concerning. You still have yours, right? He hasn't deaged and vanished?
Uh, without getting the answer to that writing the rest of the letter seems silly... the game du jour is a kissing and hugging game, which is... fine? It's fine. I was forced to have opinions on it and I'm annoyed by that. But mostly, I'm concerned about the Noah situation.
Dear! Darling! Beloved! My sweet wonderful boyfriend!
Obviously I saved up all my other letters to tell you in person, so there's a gap in these. Sorry. But you know, maybe it was worth it?
I already miss you. How's that fair? I have a serious bone to pick with the concept of distance.
Anyway, C seems to have decided he'd like to be part ceiling fan full-time. That's kinda neat. It looks like he had fun setting traps yesterday! Lots of enrichment for him!
We did clean up the pots after, so don't worry ♥
Also, here's a slideshow of outfits I tried on but didn't end up going with.
Love~~~~,
W
[ enclosed in the envelope are a LOT of dressing room selfies of extremely racy wizard outfits. they're not posed especially sexy though. there's a lot of weird stretching to look at himself and making weird faces at the mirror ]
At this point I'm just gonna go for it! As you will see in the many, many other backdated letters, I've been planning surprises and making nefarious plots since I got your last batch of them. Normally I'm a lot quicker than this when it comes to ambushes, but I like you so much I want to do it right.
I'm gonna send these all at once after I see you, so when you get it, obviously that means everything went extremely well and I did a very good fun prank on you, and you were very surprised and swept off your feet, and I romanced you so efficiently you will stay romanced for days or weeks to come.
The saucepans, by the way, will be/were Tea's idea.
I'm half tempted to just throw all the evil plotting in the trash and just camp out until I catch you, but I'm worried that might come across as a tiny bit desperate. I am sort of a tiny bit desperate to see you now that I know I can. Like a very huge tiny bit.
I love you so much. I'm gonna make the plans all silly so I don't just cry at you and freak you out.
Today C decided to run a game all on his own and gave away 20,000 points. Oh, and I became the sword teacher for Tsukasa on avante. So that's a fun friendship bonding experience!
I'll either see you soon with a perfectly executed bullying plan or I will see you soon having given up on the plan and just decided to come ambush you instead.
It's been pretty quiet lately. I put on a Live to help newbies meet each other, and mostly just it was members of the same units playing with each other instead...
I guess that's fine?
It leaves me with more time for evil plotting.
Oh, by the way, I guess I never shared the rules for the game we can play through the mail? I'm including it with this letter.
Today there was a mini-event! Trading cards of idols, current and past, got scattered everywhere. It seemed like there was one for every idol in every outfit they'd ever been in.
Naturally I did some extensive searching.
So!
I put them all in order. There's a section of me, that you can keep if you want, and there's a little booster pack of you and the twins (since you were all limited edition it was harder to find you all), which I guess you could maybe keep and sign and re-sell at a premium if you wanted.
Also I found a handful of Noah's cards if you want to embarrass him with them.
Not much else happened today! I drew some dragons!
P.S. please rest assured that plans are still in motion.
I guess there was a game today? AlcheME didn't go to it. I think it was probably nasty.
Anyway, I've been thinking about how soft and pretty you are lately. Like, has anyone ever been nicer to hug than you? I posit not. You're just perfect and relaxing and wonderful to hold and it's the best and I love you.
Also, you've got SUCH an aesthetic that it's actually surprisingly easy to find boyfriend-themed jewelry. I actually impulse bought a bracelet?
It's actually really easy to impulse buy jewelry when you're on AlcheME... I'm gonna develop a bad habit if I'm not careful.
Nothing much happened today, so I just wrote notes... I kind of want to save my good material for after I'm out. You know, so it's all fresh and original.
Anyway, I was doing self-reflection, which is not typically my forte. Well, it was half self-reflection, half just daydreaming about you. But I sort of went back over some of our conversations, and I kind of feel bad. I know you really wanna take care of me, and I really appreciate it! I do! And I guess I sidestep it a lot when you offer or talk about it...
Well, this won't surprise you much, but mostly the reason I do that is just that I don't know how to deal with it. I've actually never been taken care of ever? At least not in a way that wasn't sort of, transactional? So not doing anything almost seems like I'm taking advantage of you...
I know you probably don't feel that way! I'll try to get better at being, like, normal about it (is there something people usually do in that situation though? is there a normal response? it just feels WEIRD to just not do ANYTHING)
But anyway I love you. This one was just some hot hot introspection, I guess.
The next letter will be less Dark Night Of The Soul, hopefully!!
Love, W
[ also he drew a cartoon octopus kissing a cartoon hawk ]
Okay sweetheart I know you said to send you every letter even if they were rough
But I just spent at least two days being functionally insane and nobody took pen and paper away from me probably because I also couldn't talk so it would just feel mean?
So I guess you can see the result of that but I did have to go back and sort of, I couldn't just let that thing go out the way it was, you'd never want to make eye contact with me again? I'D never want to make eye contact with me again? So here it is with edits in red ink.
[ IT'S THE ABSOLUTELY PSYCHOTIC HUNGRY YANDERE LETTER
IT IS INSANE
IT IS LONG
IT IS UNHINGED
IT IS CLEARLY THE RESULT OF A STATUS EFFECT (IT IS OVERLAPPING STATUS EFFECTS)
W has red-texted his own insane yandere rambles after the fact with little notes like (i'm not sure of the logistics here),
or (i was really hungry),
or (actually, i would probably not bite very hard, but i do kind of want to nibble)
and once or twice (i said this like a serial killer but if you boil it down to the sentiment you can probably still see romance in it if you squint?) ]
First of all, it's asking a lot to ask me to be okay with not being useful... I'm joking. I know you wouldn't want me to just keep hustling when I finally graduate...
Well, I say that but I did offer to just get a professional job the second I visit your world for vacation. That still stands, by the way!! It's probably the easiest way to fit in when I only have fake magic (my quirk, which is not magic) and not real magic (magic, which is magic) in a magic school for magic people, with magic (which I do not have).
Anyway, I'm glad you have people looking after you! It's not that I worry about you, it's just good to know that you're being taken care of in general. And that you're being sufficiently bothered to take care of yourself. Tell everyone I said hi!
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